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5. “Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Culture, Discovery, Biography, Ideas, New Perspectives
11. “To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.” Simone Weil Biography, Greatness, Human Nature, Artistic Creation, Literary Critique, Historical Perspective
15. “I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.” Richard Branson Reading, Inspiration, Biography, Life, Leadership
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5. “Not enough books focus on how a culture responds to radically new ideas or discovery. Especially in the biography genre, they tend to focus on all the sordid details in the life of the person who made the discovery. I find this path to be voyeuristic but not enlightening.”
Neil deGrasse Tyson Culture, Discovery, Biography, Ideas, New Perspectives
11. “To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”
Simone Weil Biography, Greatness, Human Nature, Artistic Creation, Literary Critique, Historical Perspective
15. “I read everything, but generally more fact than fiction - especially autobiographies and biographies. I've read 'Long Walk to Freedom' by Nelson Mandela at least twice on holiday. Every time, I'm totally awed by his vision, strength and forgiveness. I feel honoured to have got to know him and his wonderful wife Graca over the years.”
Richard Branson Reading, Inspiration, Biography, Life, Leadership
